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4287751Coming From Behindhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/coming-from-behind-9781446412992/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3931344/fc95cdbd-2554-4ac2-a96a-5c01a12e32c0.jpg?v=638866210031030000219257MXNRandom HouseInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of <em>The Finkler Question.</em></strong></p><p><strong>A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it Malcolm Bradbury</strong></p><p>Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.</p><p>In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of anothers success...</p>...4223826Coming From Behind219257https://www.gandhi.com.mx/coming-from-behind-9781446412992/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3931344/fc95cdbd-2554-4ac2-a96a-5c01a12e32c0.jpg?v=638866210031030000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119781446412992_W3siaWQiOiJkZDQzYjBiYS04NTViLTQxM2MtODkyYS04MzhhNDk3YTI0ZjMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1NywiZGlzY291bnQiOjM4LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjIxOSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDJUMDg6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781446412992_<p><strong>In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of <em>The Finkler Question.</em></strong></p><p><strong>A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it Malcolm Bradbury</strong></p><p>Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.</p><p>In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of anothers success...</p>(*_*)9781446412992_<p><strong>In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of <em>The Finkler Question.</em></strong></p><p><strong>A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read it Malcolm Bradbury</strong></p><p>Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his contemporaries - so much so that he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.</p><p>In the meantime he is uncomfortably aware of advancing years and atrophying achievement, and no amount of lofty rationalisation can disguise the triumph of friends and colleagues, not only from Cambridge days but even within the despised walls of the Poly itself, or sweeten the bitter pill of anothers success...</p>...9781446412992_Random Houselibro_electonico_f1eebbed-4c67-4626-9720-814ad65ddaa3_9781446412992;9781446412992_9781446412992Howard JacobsonInglésMéxico2011-03-31T00:00:00+00:00Random House